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  2. Penalty (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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    The following are general types of penalty enforcement. Specific rules will vary depending on the league, conference, and/or level of football. Most penalties result in replaying the down and moving the ball toward the offending team's end zone. The distance is usually either 5, 10, or 15 yards depending on the penalty.

  3. Show-cause penalty - Wikipedia

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    In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a show-cause penalty is an administrative punishment ordering that any NCAA penalties imposed on a coach found to have committed major rules violations will stay in effect against that coach for a specified period of time—and could also be transferred to any other NCAA-member school that hires the coach while the sanctions are still in ...

  4. Blocking below the waist - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The penalty for a block below the waist is 15 yards in the NFL, NCAA, and in high school. The block is illegal unless it is against the ball carrier. [3] In the NFL, blocking below the waist is illegal during kicking plays and after a change of possession.

  5. Ineligible receiver downfield - Wikipedia

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    In college football, the NCAA allows ineligible receivers a maximum of 3 yards. [4] [5] The penalty in both the NFL and NCAA is 5 yards. [1] [6] The NCAA allows for an exception on screen plays, where the ineligible player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage to go out and block when the ball is caught behind the line of scrimmage.

  6. List of vacated games in NCAA Division I FBS football

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    The harshest sanction is a ban on a school's competing in a sport for at least one year. Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed once against an FBS college football program: SMU football for the 1987 season as a result of the Southern Methodist University football scandal.

  7. Play clock - Wikipedia

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    A play clock, also called a delay-of-game timer, is a countdown clock intended to speed up the pace of the game in gridiron football.The offensive team must put the ball in play by either snapping the ball during a scrimmage down or kicking the ball during a free kick down before the time expires, or else they will be assessed a 5-yard delay of game (American football) or time count violation ...

  8. Encroachment (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

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    Play is immediately stopped, just as it is with a false start (this violation would be an offside penalty in the NCAA). In high school, encroachment includes any crossing of the neutral zone by the defense, whether contact is made or not. It is similar to offside except when it occurs, the play is not allowed to begin. Like offside violations ...

  9. Category:NCAA sanctions - Wikipedia

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    This category is for articles about incidents that have caused National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member schools to receive sanctions for rules violations as well as people that have ever had NCAA sanctions like the show-cause penalty.